Accor has agreed to sell the Motel 6 and Studio 6 lodging chains to Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII in a transaction worth $1,900,000,000.00, which is expected to be completed in October 2012. Although Hilton Worldwide and LQ Management LLC — which is the La Quinta chain of inns and suites — are both already owned by Blackstone, Motel 6 will be operated on a stand-alone basis, according to…

If you join Qantas Club as a member now through Friday, May 25, 2012, you will receive a two-year membership for the price of a one-year membership This offer is good for membership renewals as well, but it is not valid for corporate memberships. As a Qantas Club member, you receive benefits which include the following…

US Airways flight 787 was on its way from Paris to Charlotte when the Boeing 767 aircraft was suddenly diverted to Bangor International Airport in Maine due to a female passenger claiming to the flight crew that there was a surgically implanted device inside her body — despite reports that doctors aboard the aircraft detected no signs of recent scars to verify her claim. Two fighter jets escorted the aircraft to Bangor, where…

FlyerTalk member SkiBum1229 posts a detailed report after driving a 2012 Chrysler Town & Country Touring rented from National Car Rental for a trip from Floridy to New Jersey last year — and…

John D. Rainey, the executive vice president and chief financial officer of United Airlines, reportedly said during his presentation at the Bank of America Transportation Conference on May 17, 2012 that: “(W)e also changed our Mileage Plus program, some of the benefits that, uh, accrued to the members. Uh, we, uh, we had certain groups in this group were over entitled if you will. Uh, and now, uh, we have realigned the benefits of that program with what the, the, the customers and, and, program, um, um, the participants are actually providing to the airline, and, and this is a good change going forward…”…and FlyerTalk members are furious. FlyerTalk member chinatraderjmr — whose company had already refunded approximately $132,000.00 in airfare due to allegedly poor customer service by United Airlines a week before the conference — had this response…